Love In The Spotlight

Chapter 1

8 PM

Up to this hour of the day, I still couldn't believe what Dylan had broadcasted in his interview with tita Venice.

One of the reasons why I auditioned several times at NAC Media was because of Dylan. I wanted to be in the same place-- under the same company, if ever-- with him.

Fan niya ako nang sobra, pero sila na pala ni Rhianna.

Rhianna Ruiz was the most famous artist of NAC Media. She had a lot of sponsors and endorsements. Halos taon-taon din ay mayro'n siyang mga projects, movies, series-- in short, iniingat-ingatan siya. Pareho sila ni Dylan Zoron, naging magka-love team sila in 2013, I guess? And it was pretty obvious that they did great with acting and modelling for their careers lasted for years. They never failed to succeed in increasing a certain brand's sales as well. Their fans were scattered around the globe-- mostly OFWs-- they were enormous and tremendous.

"Kumain ka na! Akala mo naman naging kayo para mag-inarte ka nang ganiyan!" sigaw nanaman sa 'kin ni Wendy, ni-lock ko kasi 'yong door ng room ko.

Actually, ilang beses na siyang pabalik-balik, pero hindi pa rin ako lumalabas para sabayan siya for dinner.

Dylan was not the mere reason why I was locking myself up inside my room, though. Iniisip ko rin 'yong nagawa kong 'scene' kanina sa set.

A peer of mine got a call from a friend yesterday saying that NAC Media was urgently looking for a model for the commercial they were shooting with Katarina Zambrano. It was my first time to audition sa mismong set at kung magustuhan, sasabak agad.

I did audition via email with videos of me acting, sometimes my acting coach would help me but would get rejected eventually. I didn't know if my acting was cliché for them. May prior experience na rin naman ako in the industry since I modelled for some clothing line when I was seventeen.

It was probably just difficult to enter those big media companies especially I knew myself that I lacked something.

Malaking kahihiyan ang nagawa ko kanina, nakitakbo ako sa ibang mga staff-- laughing like a child. It was indeed embarrassing for me. I felt like I would get automatically rejected when I audition at NAC even more-- unashamed-- because I felt the opposite.

"Alam mo, Hill, 'yang Dylan na 'yan? Unang tingin pa lang masasabi mong playboy na. Bakit hindi mo makita 'yon?"

'Exaggerated-Wendy' was her nature, and I got used to it.

Tamad akong tumayo mula sa pagkakahiga sa kama at pinatay ang AC at ilaw bago binuksan ang door.

"Napaka OA mo-- tara na nga." bungad ko, mabilis na naglakad papuntang staircase pababa.

"Do'n tayo sa rooftop, kailangan natin mag-usap nang masinsinan." she halted when I was about to step down the stairs.

Napabuntong hininga na lang ako nang iwan niya 'ko at naunang umakyat sa rooftop.

This house we bought was quite huge for just the two of us. Mayro'ng two rooms sa second floor at one room sa first floor. May rooftop din kami na, usually, ginagamit naming sampayan ng mga damit. Syempre, since k-drama addicts kami, naglagay rin kami ng table set para do'n mag-relax o magkwentuhan gaya ng sa mga napapanood namin. Minsan din ay inaakyat namin 'yong projector at white screen to watch k-dramas together when we had the time.